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<DIV>Hi Jeffrey, nice to see you back from your tour of duty, do you have any new comments on the Ruta da La Plata, it is still on my mind. I'm thinking of Dec/Jan. time frame. </DIV>
<DIV>marthahassen2000ayahooo.com</DIV>
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<DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A href="mailto:jeffrey.crawleyaDOVER.GOV.UK" title=jeffrey.crawleyaDOVER.GOV.UK>Jeffrey Crawley</A> </DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> 9/2/02 1:15:32 AM </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: Compostela: Spanish v Latin</DIV>
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<DIV>Certainly last year the three (delightful) Spanish girls shoed lots of</DIV>
<DIV>interest in where you had come from, how long you had taken - just in front</DIV>
<DIV>of me were two wonderful Austrain pilgrims in their 60's who had walked all</DIV>
<DIV>the way from Vienna!</DIV>
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<DIV>When I started out from SJPP and again at Roncesvalles I put</DIV>
<DIV>down "religious" (I'm RC) but I did notice that although equal interest was</DIV>
<DIV>shown in "tourist" or "pleasure" pilgrims - and I'm not sneering here -</DIV>
<DIV>they definitely only got the "short" form of Compostella.</DIV>
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<DIV>What's the alternative though? If you lie and say you did it for religious</DIV>
<DIV>reasons when that's not true surely you debase your own Camino?</DIV>
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<DIV>It is, after all, only a piece of paper. The fact that you did it at all,</DIV>
<DIV>for whatever reason, elevates you into a unique brotherhood.</DIV>
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